Word: soullessness
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Eventually the hills fade and the woods become piney, and you can tell you're near the Gulf of Mexico when the cumulus clouds start to pile up on horizon. The Gulf Coast is part desolate and soulless tourist strip, cheap motels and nightclubs where groups like Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts play, and part fishing villages and marsh and swamp. The swamps give way to Lake Pont-chartrain presently, and the Louisiana Superdome starts to loom on the horizon. Beyond the Mississipi and the alluvial silt of the Coast, Houston beckons...
...intelligent and sympathetic. Despite the rewards of her position, Audran remains an unfulfilled woman; passion is lacking from her life, and, according to the logic of the film, that is the crucial element. The blame for her suffering is placed, rightly enough, on her husband, one of those soulless all-business types who possesses little talent for either love...
...scarce as affection at Harry's house. His only child, a daughter, is away at boarding school in Switzerland, and he and his wife have not exercised their connubial rights in some time. Harry can't stand it. But it is also difficult to stand Harry. His soulless soliloquies and fearless superficiality thoroughly sour the movie...
Caine Mutiny. Edward Dmytrik, one of the Hollywood Ten, was also the one who relented, named names, and returned to a soulless, lucrative Hollywood career. He directed this film of the Herman Wouk bestseller, produced by the indefatigable Stanley Kramer, and it ends up as an Eisenhower-culture fantasy; the Jewish lawyer gets to ask, in the final moments. Where all of Captain Queeg's mutinous underlings were when Queeg was fighting--right from WWII's beginning--to prevent his grandmother from being turned into a soap-bar. Bogart is Queeg, the psychotic captain of the U.S.S. Caine...
...ethic, people will still work to live, but fewer will live only to work. As Albert Camus put it: "Without work all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." It will be a long while, if ever, before men figure out ways to make the work of, say, a punch-press operator or a file clerk soul-enriching. While waiting for that millennium-which may require entirely new forms of work -bosses who expect loyalty from their employees should try to satisfy their demands for more freedom, more feeling of participation and personal responsibility...